From: pageexec@freemail.hu
To: gentoo-hardened@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-hardened] Bought an "entropy-key" - very happy
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 21:38:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BABC9BC.5961.1699834F@pageexec.freemail.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100325201208.2d213cad@trite.i.flarn.net.i.flarn.net>
On 25 Mar 2010 at 20:12, Rob Kendrick wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Mar 2010 19:50:23 +0200
> pageexec@freemail.hu wrote:
>
> > > it goes to extraordinary lengths to make sure the entropy that is
> > > injected into your pool can't be sniffed before it gets there,
> >
> > out of curiosity, what's that mean exactly?
>
> That somebody with a few probes and a 50 quid USB logic analyser can't
> capture the entropy that was delivered to the system. (One of the
> target markets is installation in shared co-location facilities.)
do they also protect against impersonation? from your other answers
i infer that there's some (mutual?) authentication between the device
and the kernel, so it should be possible ;).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-25 20:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-23 20:39 [gentoo-hardened] Bought an "entropy-key" - very happy Ed W
2010-03-23 21:02 ` lists
2010-03-25 13:10 ` Rob Kendrick
2010-03-25 17:50 ` pageexec
2010-03-25 20:12 ` Rob Kendrick
2010-03-25 19:38 ` pageexec [this message]
2010-03-25 23:53 ` Ed W
2010-03-26 0:36 ` Rob Kendrick
2010-03-25 20:17 ` Ed W
2010-03-25 20:21 ` Rob Kendrick
2010-03-25 13:30 ` Ed W
2010-03-25 19:23 ` lists
2010-03-25 19:34 ` Tóth Attila
2010-03-25 20:11 ` Rob Kendrick
2010-03-25 20:34 ` Ed W
2010-03-25 20:41 ` RB
2010-03-25 21:08 ` Tom Hendrikx
2010-03-26 14:15 ` Brian Kroth
2010-03-26 15:19 ` Rob Kendrick
2010-03-27 13:11 ` Ed W
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